Some help from my readers

I have been trying to write a parody of “I’m Still Here” using events from Jewish history, but have been unable to get anything going.

Here’s what I need you from my readers: Summaries of events in Jewish history in short phrases, like, “Crossing the Red Sea,” “the Inquisition,” etc. If you can just list them in the comments, I can pull them together into the song parody that I’ve been wanting to do for ages.

And yes, this has everything to do with having seen “Follies” last night and heard the song again.

Events from ancient to modern times, up to and including “Rockets in Haifa.”

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Escape from Haran; famine in Canaan; slavery in Egypt; crossing the Red Sea; wandering in the desert; attacked by Amalek; attacked by Ammon and Moab; exile in Babylon; oppression by Rome; destruction of the Temple; exile by Rome; the massacre at Blois; the massacre at Worms; the massacre at York; the Almohades; the Spanish Inquisition; the Chmelnitzky uprising; oppression by the Czars; the Pales of Settlement; the Cantonists; Soviet repression; Ottoman oppression; the Hebron massacre; the British White Paper; Nazi mass murder; attacks by Arab countries; hijacking of airplanes; separation of Jewish passengers; media mendacity; rockets on Kiryat Shemona; rockets on Sderot; rockets on Haifa, rockets on Safed, rockets on Karmiel, rockets on Ashkelon …

Sorry, I don’t know the song, but here’s some stuff for “We didn’t start the fire” that might inspire you a little. (I think the different things my wife and I came up with say a lot about how we think.)

From Me: Nehemiah, Babylon Second Temple, first one’s gone Maccabees beat Antioch and kept the lights on Hellenistic culture came And philosophers got game Philo Sirach Qoheleth and Proverbs all rocked

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